I’m not suggesting BC purchase $600 million in housing all at once. More non-market is a medium/long-term goal. I’m just demonstrating that governments can purchase/build real property at very little cost to their budget, since you’re worried about BC misusing your tax dollars. It “costs” a lot to buy or build property but that is paid for with debt not general funds. That debt is very cheap to finance since governments typically have good credit ratings and the debt secured against assets.

I’m also not sure why you think the government would charge market rates, I never said that.

From your other comments, you seem to want a quick and simple solution to a complex problem that has been growing for decades. I agree that LVT is a good idea and would help but it’s not a solution unto itself. And your ideas about abolishing income tax are right out of the southern states; not exactly the examples we want to follow.

The cost of real property to governments is almost inconsequential. Governments can often get loans against assets at below inflation, and usually well below the increases in real estate market value. There are many cases of municipalities that bought property, then changed their plans and resold that property for a profit, even when factoring in maintenance, legal fees, and borrowing costs.

Vienna has decade long waitlists

Your own source disagrees with you:

At last reading, some 25,000 Viennese were on waiting lists with approval times varying between two months and two years.

And the conclusion is:

Vienna’s model does not rescind the law of supply and demand. Vienna was able to keep costs low for many years in large part because demand remained low.

Which I fully agree with. As the report shows, in recent years Vienna has also failed to keep up with demand. Vienna isn’t perfect, but if their model is actually followed, and supply scales with demand, then costs can be low.

It often helps. The best example is Vienna.

I really wish people would be civil, and I do believe trans rights are human rights.

The thing that bugs me most is the coach’s inappropriate outburst, and the lack of response by PACWEST. I know trans people in sports is a contentious issue, but presumably Harriette is an eligible player. If you don’t like the rules, you should get made at the rule makers, not your opponents. And PACWEST’s silence is deafening. From the sounds of it, the coach’s actions would have resulted in disciplinary actions if the subject was different.

We can try it out since there is both @[email protected] and [email protected]

When I searched for [email protected] on Mastodon (specifically masto.ai), I got the community, not the user. Not sure why, but that’s what I got.

FYI !m is also Google Maps.

Exactly. They just use the excuse, “It’s going to hurt the poor.”

I love DDG, but if you want non-AI results, just use a different search, like !s (startpage, which uses Google)

No Gemini (Google’s AI) results.

That sounds awful. We already have trackpoint to use a mouse in a compact device.

The printer would add so much bulk that it would no longer be a compact laptop anymore. I know you personally want one (from your recent post), but just carry a separate device or velcro it to the back of the laptop.

Additional tunnels are already being built as part of the Gateway Program which will double train capacity.

The irony of complaining about someone else’s bias when your previous comment called information “propaganda”…

Of course there’s a disability exception. And the idea that it’s a tax on the poor is just asinine. Who the $@#% drives into Manhattan?

I assume by “on mobile” you mean “iOS” since on Android it’s super easy to redirect YouTube links to a 3rd party app.

There’s a lot of good suggestions, but for a more direct replacement, instead of GDP per capita (which is similar to mean income), I prefer median income. I don’t care about the average income (which can be inflated by the ultra-rich), I care about the income of the average citizen.

Yes, NFC the technology works. However, certain applications, like Google Wallet can be problematic and require workarounds (not because of technology itself though)

I know that low key defeats the purpose of a privacy oriented android build but yeah

Not everyone using a custom ROM is doing it for privacy reasons. I see privacy as a perk but I mainly use custom ROMs to keep my devices around longer and to get new features.

Even for those who are concerned about privacy, I don’t think NFC is that big of a security hole. I know some people who turn it on only when they’re using it, but that’s pretty painless.

What if we show a picture of parked bikes in US and a busy traffic in Amsterdam?

That wouldn’t just be a random street in the US. I’ve almost never left North America, and I’ve never seen that many bikes parked on a random street on a random day. The only time I’ve seen that many bikes in one place is at an event’s bike valet, or at a school in a super bikeable area.

I definitely agree with the cost of living being what it is, it’s so easy to make a misstep and be destitute.

However, this story has far too many holes in it to make sense. “If you’re a defeated politician, no one wants to give you an opportunity,” including his cousin on city council? The “over-prescription” of medication? A seemingly successful family being no longer willing to help to the point you’re in a homeless shelter? The article does talk a little about depression after losing an election, and I suspect there’s more to that, possibly with mental health and possibly substance abuse. I’m not trying to write off his downfall as “just mental health” or blame him for our lack of social supports. I just wish we got the whole honest story, it’s hard to read this highly editorialized account.

Nowadays, if you set out to have a specific career and aren’t willing to adjust, you’re likely going to be missing out on opportunities.

I graduated university in 2011, and besides a few people who went on to develop for FAANG and have been there since, almost nobody is where they expected at graduation. Many are very successful, but in very different ways than they could have foreseen: The engineer who’s now the CFO of a charity; the English major who became an AI developer; the golf pro who became a sales rep and moved up from there in a billion dollar company.

There’s so many other similar stories just in the people I know. In the economy now, you have to roll with the punches and carve your own path, some which didn’t exist a decade ago.